Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-14
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
W.

Scarlet fever closes the schools Of Winter
set.
The Des Moines school children observed
Arbor Day.
Mr.. Benjamin Hall has resigned as trustee
of the reform school.
Gov. Larabee will not permit smoking in
the capitol building.
What Cheer has a population Of 500, made
up largely of foreigners.
The Dodge Light Guards Of Council Bluffs
were mustered on Friday.
The Foster opera house at Des Moines was
destroyed by fire Saturday.
The state treasurer Of the Irish National
league collected 3,Sl3 80 last year.
The county superintendent's convention at
Waterloo has been adjourned 10 May "a.
There has been fifty.one combinations at
the Ottumwa Episcopal parish this spring.
In the administration OF the Clark law Cres-
ton prosecutors have reached the raid de-
gree.
The state association Of Congregational
ministers and churches OF Iowa conveles at
Charles City on the 25th to Goth insts.
A hail storm In the vicinity of Estheryille
on the night Of the LIST inst. did much dam
age TO early vegetation and window lights.
The staterailro al commission has finally
decided the union depot site question at OF
tumwa, and the building viii be erected at
once.
A gum club has been organized in Sac
county, whose object is TO see which lady can
chew the ',~gest cud of gum for q half hour
without -oking.
What beer Is counting on q new $4,000
hotel building, a new Baptist church and
four substantial brick blocks, as a part Of the
seasons work.
The Des Moines city council has voted a
gold medal TO Fireman Lynch, who rescued a
young lady from the burning Foster opera
house on the Goth ult.
The immense shops OF the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy road at Letter, just be-
yond the corporate limits OF Burlington, oc-
ion in money.
The Ottumwa waterworks and water power
has been sold to the low water company,
which has been organized by eastern capital
lists to buy and build wsterworks In this state
and the west.
Burlington is having the measles about as
bad as Davenport suffered only a few weeks
ago, only the severity OF the cases is more ap-
parent at the former place. A number of
deaths have occurred
Della Blair, the seven-year-old daughter OF
LATE Blair, living near Newton. Jasper coun-
90 Was bnrrihty hurpnJ Last unaly he har
clothing catching fire from a brush heap,
around which she had been playing.
CThe social event at Cedar Rapids was the
dance of company G. The Govern
ernor's Grays, of Dubuque, were the honored
guests of the occasion, A general display OF
bunting was foated I'm honor Of the day.
On Sunday, at burlington, will be held the
Bezirks Tag satzung Of the Turner's Of the
! upper Mississippi valley. Representatives are
expected from Dubuque, Davenport, Des
Moines, Muscatiue, Clinton, keokuk, Buffalo
and other places.
VIM. Felt, Of Mason City, received a tele-
gram Thursday announcing the tragic death
of hts son samg,l at Fargo. The deceased
was the first white child born in Cerro Gordo
county, aud has always resided here until
three years ago, when be moved to Dakota,
The body Of John Conrandy was exhumed
at Bowen last week, for the purpose Of burial
in the Extra tathcllc cemetery. Although 1t
had lain in the grave mine years, dissolution
had not taken place and the corpse was as
fresh and recognizable as when first consigned
to the earth.
The lightning got In its work at the West
crn Union telegraph Office at Davenport on
the night Of the LIST inst. Every one Of the
thirty tc forty wires that enter the o1ice were
destroyed, the switch board was fired and the
ceiling was set to blazing in a dozen places
where the plaster was torn of.
A stock dealer Of Red Oak was waylaid at
Burlington on the I'd inst. for the purpose of
robbery. His money was secreted on his per.
son and the robbers failed Of their purpose.
He was badly beaten on the head and body.
He identified two Burlington toughs, Ward
and Lamont, as his assailants.
A farmer living near Mt. Pleasant found
six Of his neighbor's horses In his pasture.
He stretched n barbed wire along a portion Of
hC ltHtC "a ttt pooi outN lhiou-h
It. The fence was carried quite a distance by
the barbs sticking In the flesh of the horses,
literally tearing their skin and flesh into
shreds.
A neatly dressed lady attempted to kfdnap
a two-year-old child Of Vim. Zlnsmarter a.
Dee Moines on the 81 inst. The father for.
tunately witnessed the attempt from a dis
lance and soon secured the little fellow. The
woman cooily spologized by the excuse tina.
she thought the little fellow had lost his
way.
A Buffalo dispatch says: Another body
was cremated at the Delavan avenue crema.
forum this morning. 1t was that OF John
Acken, of Waverly, Iowa He was 20 years
Of age. His remains were brought here In
charge Of his son, g.. A.. Acken, and arrived
at 80 this morning. The funeral party went
to the crematory about 9 O'Clock and the in
cineration passed of successfully.
A young woman WAS arrested at Hopkirton,
Delaware county, on the Goth ult. on a charge
of horse stealing. She was endeavOriug 10
sell a team Of horses she had In her posses
sion at the time Of her arrest. The woman is